‘We Built It’: The Rallying Cry of the RNC
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TAMPA, Fla. — If there’s one phrase the 2012 Republican National Convention will be remembered for, it will be three short words: “we built it.”
Virtually every speaker, to take the convention stage has said it — or some variation — as a knock on President Barack Obama’s now-famous “you didn’t build that” line about business owners. It’s been a definite crowd-pleaser, drawing applause each time from the convention audience. It was actually the theme Tuesday on a night that featured remarks from successful business owners and even an original song by country singer Lane Turner. The title? “I Built It.”
“I love it and I want to say amen [every time I hear it],” Georgia delegate Ralph Hudgens told TheBlaze. “They cheer, they clap…I think it’s going to be the theme of the campaign from now on.”
Helen Eckman, a North Carolina delegate, said she thinks it’s great — both Obama‘s initial comment and the GOP’s response.
“I think it’s perfect, it was a wonderful gift we received from Obama, and I think we should use it as much as possible because it’s so true.”
Obama made his initial comments on the campaign trail in Virginia last month. Republicans immediately seized on them, with the White House pushing back to insist he had been talking about taxpayer-funded infrastructure. Leonard Spearman, a Texas delegate, disagrees.
“For all his politics he should have known better than to say something like that,” Spearman said. “The infrastructure and all that — that makes the playing field level. After that, then it’s up to you, self-determination, willpower…all that’s on you to build it.”
“It’s a rallying cry, I’m sure next week [Democrats will] try to defuse it,” he added. “Right now we’re going to take it and run with it.”
Michael Gonzalez, vice president of communications at the conservative Heritage Found, said the convention is a perfect time to hit the message hard.
“The convention is a time when people who haven’t been paying attention begin to pay attention,” Gonzalez said. “There’s a lot of people who lead busy lives…they have two jobs, they go to Little League games, the pay little attention to what goes on in Washington. Now is when you get the attention of people in the middle.”
Shirley Taylor, an Idaho delegate, said it’s “a great feeling” to be on the convention floor when someone says it.
“Everybody gets up and cheers and it just makes you feel like we can do that,” she said. “It’s a feeling of inspiration and enthusiasm to know that America can be better.”
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Fla.Patriot
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 8:35amAll this liberal B.S. is really making me ill. Luck has nothing to do with it. Loosing does. I think that most people who have MADE THEMSELVES successful, if asked will gladly admit to the failures they had along the way. Loosing is what drives us to do better. But without disapline it’s a moot point. The problem is we have a nanny state. If you come in dead last, you still get a trophy and a “good job”, when what you need is a “wow dude, that was painful to watch, did’nt you train at all?“ But if there are no real rewards because Government has ”Leveled the field” Why try? And that is why self disipline has gone straight out the window. You don’t need to be disipined if there is no risk of real failure. If you never have to pick yourself up because the Government will keep doing it for you no matter how much your own fault it is, then you will always be a loser
Report Post »JRook
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 10:17am“you didn’t build that” line about business owners.” Yoo MADeleine how‘s about taking a lesson in context from Jonathan’s report today. Or does context only matter when your being objective in coverage of what Romney says. The PRESIDENT was clear and correct when he identified that businesses did not build, and would not have built the interstate highway system, the communications infrastructure, the shipping ports, railway system, airports, educational system, etc. without the support and $$$ from the government. That’s what he said but hey continue to repeat the sad lie. Cause alone with the Medicare cutting lie and Welfare to work lies, it seems that’s all you have. Heck you don’t even have information to know how much of a slim ball your candidate is with respect to his taxes. But of course men of great character, integrity, ethics and citizenship keep most of their money offshore and shell corporations to avoid paying taxes. Taxes which help build infrastructure and schools.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:14amactually, our IL family business was in Heavy Highway since 1958 … in one lifetime we put down the equivalent of thousands of miles of rural IL highway. so you can actually say WE built those northern IL roads. and obama had nothing to do with it.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:09am‘The Boss Lady’ here had her new “Government didn’t build my business, I DID” Romney teeshirt on downtown today and noticed a short fat bleached blonde democrat ‘shemale’ (aren’t they all) in her late 40s who had passed her but now was circling her… and finally the wretched bitter little creature came straight up to The Boss Lady, ranting at her that HER husband was ‘a doctor’ because of all the government loans he got. … then the democrat did something “despicable”, and The Boss Lady
Report Post »Wife countered with ‘you just proved my point about democrats’ and the wretched scraggly fat creature gasped, incensed in anger, and scurried off muttering loudly.
The Boss Lady said we almost had to pity the poor wretch, it was so incensed just SEEING that tshirt: obama has totally corrupted that poor creature‘s democrat mind and it’s lost all her civilty and intelligence.
Lloyd Drako
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 10:18pmYou are all misinterpreting what Obama said. He was simply condemning the sin or pride.
Report Post »wvernon1981
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 10:25pmI’m not proud. I’ll admit any success or good personality traits I have that make me successful are nothing more than luck. Others aren’t so fortunate.
Report Post »Fla.Patriot
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 7:54amPride is not a sin. Arrogance is. The difference is one is based on ones accomplishments thru hard work, ingenuity and perseverance. Arrogance is what we see coming out of the oval office, which is pride with no merit. Just because you claim to be the smartest person in the room, doesn’t make it so.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 10:15pmWow! Clint Eastwood was GREAT tonight!!!
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 10:18pmYes he certainly was. Loved that audience involved Go ahead, make my day!
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 10:06pmA suggestion for the DNC: “We don’t enjoy firing people.”
Report Post »marybethelizabeth
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 10:04pmThe President was right. We didn’t build it.
Mitt built it.
Report Post »After two hours of tonight;s convention I’m convinced
No question
13th Imam
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 11:49pmSince Barry has Never had a real Job, and his slender delicate fingers couldn‘t perform a real man’s task, he must be the one who built it.
Report Post »Dahveed
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 9:42pmPerhaps the Dems rally cry will be “The Nannystate built it!” Naw, everyone knows the Nannystate can’t do anything well…
Report Post »Individualism
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 9:10pmit would be nice to build it in America but of course neo cons love shipping jobs overseas and destroying countries and rebuilding them overseas as well. actually the 3 words should be, we destroy it.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 9:20pmINNY, your horse scheiss is getting to be really old hat.
Report Post »wvernon1981
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 9:21pmThere’s a good economic argument that free trade can benefit everyone because it allows us to produce more but it only works if the gains are distributed fairly. Unfortunately, the gains in this country end up distributed to the capital owners because we specialize in capital intensive goods. Unfortunately, this puts downward pressure on wages for labor. The pie grows, capital owners win, and labor suffers.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 9:24pmHi RJJ,
Thanks for the “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature” butter commercial! ROTFLOL
And….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SwNXQMoNps
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 9:27pmWVERNON1981, Your rough interpretation of Herr Marx und Ingles?
Report Post »Dahveed
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 9:28pmSadly, companies are just responding to the choice the shoppers have made. When those union members go into Walmart and continually pick the cheaper products, business responds. If you want businesses to bring the jobs back, then buy the superior US made products. But over and over again, those loud-mouth liberals whine about jobs moving overseas from the windows of their Japanese-made Subarus.
In the liberal mind, its somehow greedy for businesses to respond to customer wants.
So quit whining about businesses moving jobs overseas and start whining about how everyone here buys the cheapest crap they can find.
Report Post »wvernon1981
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 9:30pmNo, a derivation from Hecksher-Ohlin theorum in international trade theory.
“The Heckscher–Ohlin theorem is one of the four critical theorems of the Heckscher–Ohlin model. It states that a country will export goods that use its abundant factors intensively, and import goods that use its scarce factors intensively. In the two-factor case, it states: “A capital-abundant country will export the capital-intensive good, while the labor-abundant country will export the labor-intensive good.”"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckscher%E2%80%93Ohlin_theorem
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 10:17pmHi MONK, I have the special edition of that movie on DVD and that scene never fails to make me guffaw.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 10:35pmWVERNON1981, Pardon, but I just made it back here. For a while this was OBE.
Report Post »The first sentence in your original post threw me off. “There is a good economic argument that free trade can benefit everyone because it allows us to produce more but it only works if the gains are distributed fairly.” That sounds more like a modern interpretation from the Communist Manifesto than from the Wiki definition of the Heckschir-Ohlin Theorem. But, consider the source, Wikipedia. Not saying it is wrong, I often use Wikipedia when looking for details in my hobby. The text can get a bit shallow at times.
RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 10:36pmGeez MONK, where are my manners? You’re welcome on that link. It certainly seemed fitting at the time. Hadn’t seen it for a very long time myself.
Report Post »Fla.Patriot
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 7:57amYour village called…seems they’re an idiot short
Report Post »wvernon1981
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 9:05pmA rallying cry based on a completely disingenuous misrepresentation of what Obama was saying.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 9:10pmExplain what Obama was saying then, I am listening. Here is the link to his speech, just to remind you of exactly what he said, but please, interpret the complex leftist jargon for us dumb folk.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKjPI6no5ng
Report Post »wvernon1981
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 9:19pmI‘m aware of the speech and it’s unfortunate the phrase where was saying business owners didn’t build the roads and bridges was written poorly. Instead of using the word those, he used that.
“If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business–you didn’t build that [THOSE]. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.”
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 9:25pmWVERNON1981
Report Post »To make it even easier for you, here is the transcript
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/07/13/remarks-president-campaign-event-roanoke-virginia
So, as DARMOK AND JALAD AT TANAGRA asked, please explain it to us dumb folk.
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 9:32pmI listened to the entire speech, several times, and my take out of exactly what he is saying is, you didn’t do that on your own, as a collective, we did it. That is his world view, we can ONLY be successful if everyone is succesful. If someone wins, someone loses, so we all have to be EQUAL.
That my friend, is socialism/communism/marxism. That is not America, that is not how we built our country, and I can tell you, no one gave me anything I have, I worked and saved for everything I have. In fact the worse areas I have seen is areas where there is high unemployment and everyone gets welfare/state assistance. They trash their houses, trash their neighborhoods, and trash their families. And by the way, I am not talking about Minorities, I have seen more WHITE slums in my life, it comes with the GIMMIE lifestyle, you don’t work for it, so it means NOTHING to you.
Report Post »wvernon1981
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 9:40pmI don’t really care what America is supposedly about.
No one gave you anything or helped you out at all huh? You built schools yourself, you built roads yourself, you built the internet yourself, you built public utilities yourself, you invested in all the scientific research that led to the technology that benefits you yourself. I can go on.
No man is rich on an island by himself.
Report Post »Dahveed
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 9:40pmThat’s BS. He knew exactly what he was saying and its fits in with the whole “the 1% is evil” mindset the Dems try to sell to the poor and disenfranchised. It fits because the vast majority of lower classes don’t understand why some people earn more. They immediately assume that the wealthy were either: Lucky, Born into money, or somehow cheated to earn money. They simply do not understand its hard work and risk management to be self-employeed and become successful.
They feel this way because to recognize the achievements of others is to recognize your own short comings in that same field.
And thats the root of what Obama was saying. He was agreeing with that misguided notion that they were just in the right place at the right time and their success wasn’t really anything THEY did, but rather more like winning the lottery. And wouldn’t it be good to share their luck with those that work just as hard and smart, but weren’t as lucky?
So don’t come here whining that anyone misinterpreted what Obama said. Anyone that has risked it all and started their own business knows better than that.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 9:56pm@wvernon1981
So in your worldview, if we both were dropped in the middle of the desert, and I walked out by myself, I didn’t do that, the Govt had to have helped?
How did the Govt build those schools I went to (By the way, I went to a private Christian College, paid for it myself), taxpayers paid for it, how did taxpayers pay for it, through their work. The Govt doesn’t build anything, they take resources from those who are productive, and use those to build schools roads, infrastructure. So, if there is no one working, no one being successful, how does the Govt get money? They simply print or borrow money, which GUESS who gets to pay it back? Taxpayers.
So let me ask you, how did you get your house/apartment/cardboard box you live in? Did the Govt give it to you, did they build it for you?
I have streets in front of my house and my kids go to school because I PAY TAXES. And in fact, Colorado Springs allowed the development I live in, only because WE the housebuyers paid an extra levy for the bond to install the infrastructure. So, I have roads/schoold/electricity/water because I paid for it, I did it, not the Govt. They just borrowed the money that I PAID BACK.
Report Post »So again, explain why Obama’s speech makes sense, why he is RIGHT about the fact that YOU DIDN”T BUILD THAT. Who did then?
And under his same application, we should all be exactly equal in education, knowedge, and income level if our abilities only come from the Govt. Why the inequality, Racis
The-Monk
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 9:57pm@wvernon1981
You are such an idiot. I have a house that I pay property taxes on. I have a car that needs gas that I pay taxes on, etc….. My taxes go to the Government, local and Federal. The Government hires “private” contractors to build the schools, roads, etc. The Government is just a middle man that takes an administrative cut for managing the money we give them We could do it ourselves and we did do it ourselves by hiring (voting) a Government to do those accounting things . We run the Government but, the Government is out of wack and wants to run us. You sound just like that foreigner from Chile, J-Zak. Are you sure “you’re” not him? LOL
Report Post »wvernon1981
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 9:58pm“He was agreeing with that misguided notion that they were just in the right place at the right time and their success wasn’t really anything THEY did, but rather more like winning the lottery. And wouldn’t it be good to share their luck with those that work just as hard and smart, but weren’t as lucky?”
And that’s exactly my understanding because you, nor I, nor anyone else has free will. If you’re successful, you are lucky. You can work incredibly hard and not be successful. It takes intelligence. Most people aren’t that lucky. They can’t will themselves to be intelligent or make good decisions. It takes discipline. Many people can’t will themselves to be disciplined. It takes luck to be intelligent. It takes luck to be disciplined although at least discipline can be learned but what influences an undisciplined person to discipline themselves enough to learn discipline. Success does take being in the right place at the right time. It might take meeting the right people for good connections, it might take an above average physical appearance, it might take having good social skills. Success typically requires resilience in the face of adversity. Another skill that can be learned but what influences one to learn it. Success requires not being averse to risk: a personality trait also due in large part to luck. No can will a lot of these factors on ourselves. Success is to win life’s lottery. I’m not proud enough to say I made it on my own of
Report Post »wvernon1981
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 10:08pmNo. The government itself didn’t build anything but I could make the same statement about any business. It’s a stupid statement. I think we both know that our leaders we collectively elected decided to direct resources towards those. It wouldn‘t have happened on it’s own. We have a government to step in where the private sector has shortcomings. The private sector isn’t going to build dams with a 50 year payback period. The private sector isn’t going to make investments in other public goods that benefit us all but have too long a payback period to make them possible. The private sector isn’t going to invest as much into fundamental scientific research with no obvious near term payoff. The private sector efficiently produces goods and services but it will not produce them all. It takes government to redirect some production towards such goods.
As far as schools go, knowing probability was with me, made the assumption you attended public school.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 10:08pmHey wvernon1981…..
I’ll get back to ya after Clint finishes his RNS speech…… LOL
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 10:13pm@Wevyrn
A good example is when I was a SSgt in the Air Force, I worked with a guy from Compton, he went on about why I had a house and he didn’t, it was racist. We were the same rank and made exactly the same pay, my wife and I saved, drove a used car didn’t take vacations, and we bought a house. He and his wife (who was also Military) both drove nice new cars, had nice gold chains and bling, bought designer clothes, and lived in base housing, that they didn’t pay rent or utilities. And yet it was choices, we made a choice to save and invest, don’t buy expensive things, and set goals. He lived for today, and always said, “I grew up on welfare, my mom and sister are still on welfare, why do I got to save, the Govt will always take care of me.”
That is the difference between conservatives and Liberals. Conservatives build things, Liberals want their cut after the work is done.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 10:19pm@wvernon1981…. the ID ten T
EDIT: Make that “I’ll get back to you after Rubio and Romney finish speaking also.” LOL
Don’t ya just love it?
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 10:22pm@wvernon1981
Report Post »Your wrong about Dams, Edison Co. was building electric plants before the TVA was enacted under FDR. He did it to specifically put private industry out of buisness, by subsidising the electricity industry and making it sooooo cheap, a private company couldn’t stay in buisness. But that was ruled unconstituiona and the TVA was abolished. This is a case where the Govt decided to take over a industry and bankrupt it, then nationalize it. Read your history. The same reason roads were built, the govt. decided it was going to put the Toll Roads out of buisness so it used tax money to make it cheaper to not use toll roads, thus nationalizing the road system. What Obama is doing with the Banks and Car industry in America isn’t new, just a page out of the progressive playbook. It has been going on for 100 years, so America did build that, in some areas, they can’t compete when you have the power of taxation to go against, in those areas,Govt will always win, it‘s just that we end up with a crappy system that isn’t as efficient as it was before, and costs us way more than it used to.
wvernon1981
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 10:24pmDarmok,
I realize there are different cognitive styles between liberals and conservatives. First, conservatives tend to mischaracterize liberals and vice versa. As a liberal, and I can’t speak for them all, I would ask, now that he’s in a mindset of dependency, what is the best way to teach him otherwise. I would rely on what sociological and psychological research had determined. I think a conservative would be a bit more intuitive and respond something like stopping welfare all together but again, I’m not thinking like a conservative. I can’t be in your minds.
Report Post »wvernon1981
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 10:36pmDarmok,
I’ll look into the Edison thing
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 10:39pm@Wyvern
I didn’t grow up with wealth, my dad worked his butt off, I left home after I graduated High School and worked for everything I have. I lived on my own, paid my own rent, and it was my effort that got me where I am. I have friends and relatives that had more than I did, and made bad choices with their lives. I have tried to help friends and relatives, as much as I can, try to guide them, give them advice, but at some point. You just have to step back and say, you’re on your own, I can’t help anymore. Some people are beyond help, some people never learn and yes, some people are just Unlucky. But I also know some of the “Unlucky” people, if you dig down, they make bad choices over and over.
The Govt should provide some sort of “Safety Net”, but really, at some point, there are people that you just have to say, “Get off your butt and do something about your situtation, stop holding your hand out”. I built my life. And I feel sorry for you if you can’t see that everyone makes their own destiny, it is a decision YOU make, unless your a slave and have a master guiding you. You do make YOUR own choices.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 10:44pm@wvernon1981
Report Post »Also, go look at my post under “How Obama disrespected our fallen soldiers” There is a good example of CHOICES by our President, and determining what is important, and what is not.
RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 10:50pmWVERNON1981, Okay, I’ll simply pick up on the welfare mention and run with it a bit. It is not really that we want to totally end welfare, but improve and make it more efficient. Stop it from being a trap for some and yet an incentive for other to have no drive or initiative. I’ve explained this before here, and may as well mention it again. Back during Clinton’s first term I read a government report that had a break down of many expenditures, but Welfare really caught my eye. Roughly for every dollar that enters the program and is filtered through government employees about 37 cents makes it to the intended recipients. Not at all efficient, and it is a foolish waste of the taxpayers’ money. That was almost twenty years ago. Wonder what that figure is now? I’m quite sure a lot less considering the huge number of new government employees hired by this administration. The further trouble is that almost all of the rest of the government is about as efficient. It all needs to be overhauled. Reduce the expenses caused by the government, while providing better assistance to the truly needy.
Report Post »wvernon1981
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 10:51pmI‘m not sure we’re in that much disagreement then except that I would argue that you only have the illusion of making choices and the choices you do make are fully determined by cause and effect.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 11:02pm@Wvernon1981
If you read “The Forgotten Man” by Amity Shales, it is a great look at the policies and results from the Great Depression.
FDR, in the name of fairness, couldn’t see why a person in Chicago paid a different amount for electricty than a man in New York, Ca., Ky, etc. He thought, we should pay the same amount no matter where we live. Thus, he passed the TVA to take it out of private hands, and Govt could regulate the industry so it was FAIR. By building dams, he would undercut private industry and put them out of busines, thus nationalizing the electric co. The Grand Cooley dam, the Hoover dam were all work projects under FDR. The Supreme Court ruled against it. http://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4829&context=ilj
Here is the link to read the decision.
Wvernon, I have an Associates Degree in Electrical Eng., a BS in Computer Science, my background is electronics, but I love history. I read many books a month, historical, political, humor, and fiction. I am a sceptic, I don’t take anything anyone says for gospel, I always cross-reference facts. My political views are Libertarian, very Libertarian. Never let someone just tell you what is what and accept it, challenge it, learn for yourself. Even with economics, when the CRASH in 2008 happened, I read a bunch of books on economic theory and decifered what they were telling us. A lot of what Govt told us didn’t make sense. So always do your own research. Mulon Labe.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 11:10pm@wvernon1981
“I think we both know that our leaders we collectively elected….”
Hey, ID ten T….. In America “we elect” something called…. “representatives”….. not “leaders”.
Go back to your commie or socialist Country…. or, did you ever leave there? Me thinks you are posting from some Country other than the Great USA!
What you say J-Zak? Chile con (commie) Carne?
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 11:22pm@The Monk
Report Post »One thing I have noticed in life, Liberals live in a fantasy where they can simply “Talk” problems out, and life is fine. Reality is try to “Talk” things out, but life will just kneecap you and take your wallet. The conservative usually comes by, helps the liberal to their feet, and tells them, you got to fight back, or noones going to respect you. The Liberal will then create a panel to find out why life mugged them. Conservatives end up paying the tax to support the panel, all while punching life in the face to keep themselves from getting mugged.
The-Monk
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:04amHi Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra,
Thanks LOL….
Go here and check out Michael Moore‘s comment of tonight’s RNC. It’s the 3rd video down…..
http://evilbloggerlady.blogspot.com/2012/08/make-our-day-marco-and-clint.html
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 9:03pm“OJO”~~~ LOOK OUT:
Go to: http://muslimbureau.com/jumahatdnc/
Remember the 20,000 muslimes are being imported to NC this very night. Please, please be in prayer for AMERICA, for NORTH CAROLINA (which is trying to undo what its current gov and the noman agreed to years ago~~~behind closed doors/secret kinds of things). PRAY that JESUS HIMSELF WILL BE VISIBLY PRESENT all over NC, but most esp. in Charlotte beginning right now all through next week and through the election into next year.
YES, it is that big a deal, people.
II CHRONICLES 7:14
It IS up to us, HIS KIDS. Are you in???
GOD BUILT IT. It is up to us to ask HIM to let us keep it.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 8:51pmObama’s slogan at the DNC will be, “No you can’t, without me“ or ”America can’t spell TEAM without ME and AT, so everyone, Look AT ME”
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 9:14pmThere’s always: ATE `M.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 9:20pmOr MEAT.
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